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Quote by: tommy5x  Nothing is better than heaven.
Half a loaf is better than nothing.
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Half a loaf is better than heaven.
Your average person would read that and think "Sounds about right," and that's they way it was intended to be read, unless somebody deliberately wanted to dick with people. |
Nope. That's not how it was intended to be read. It was intended to point out an how a valid syllogism can still be erroneous logic. My philosophy professor, in fact, presented the sylogism and asked the class to explain why it is bad logic. It is an elementry lesson to students of logic that valid syllogisms do not necessarily make valid logic.
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It's pedancy on behalf of the use of nothing that creates the logical flaw.
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There is not such word as "pedancy." Did you mean "pedantry?" No matter. You're still wrong and no matter how long you hold your breath and how much you stamp your feet, you will still be wrong.